Polity Be

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Was a precolonial polity in modern-day Togo.

Establishment

  • January 1683: Akplaka I Huve (Agbogo) becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Be in 1682.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • July 1884: On July 5, 1884, Plakkoo, the baton bearer (= deputy) of King Mlapa III, who had probably died by then, and the German commissioner Gustav Nachtigal signed a "protection treaty". With this, individual places in today's Togo were declared a "German protected area".
  • July 1886: The border between the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Togo was defined through a treaty between Great Britain and Germany in 1886.

Disestablishment

  • July 1886: The border between the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Togo was defined through a treaty between Great Britain and Germany in 1886.